History
Woman and the New Race
Read by Becky Cook
Margaret Sanger
Margaret Sanger was an American sex educator and nurse who became one of the leading birth control activists of her time, having at one poin…
The Annals Vol 2
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…
A Voyage to the South Sea
Read by Tom Crawford
William Bligh
A Voyage to the South Sea, undertaken by command of His Majesty, for the purpose of conveying the Bread-fruit tree to the West Indies, in Hi…
Southern Horrors: Lynch Law In All Its Phases
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Thoroughly appalled and sickened by the rising numbers of white-on-black murders in the South since the beginning of Reconstruction, and by …
History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution of 1688…
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David Hume
David Hume is one of the great philosophers of the Western intellectual tradition. His philosophical writings earned him lasting fame and re…
The Annals Vol 3
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Publius Cornelius Tacitus
The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but bo…
The Great Gold Rush: A Tale of the Klondike
Read by Cate Barratt
William Henry Pope Jarvis
Canadian journalist William Jarvis' gently fictionalized work recounts many of the countless fascinating tales of the Klondike Gold Rush in …
A Popular History of Ireland, Book 02
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Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was an Irish refugee and a father of the Canadian confederation. His work on Irish history is comprehensive, encompassin…
A Short History of the World
Read by Kristine Bekere
H. G. Wells
A Short History of the World is a non-fictional historic work by English author H. G. Wells, largely inspired by Wells's earlier 1919 work T…
La Commune
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Louise Michel
Louise Michel était une anarchiste française très active dans la Commune de Paris de 1871. Son livre "La Commune&q…
Dress Design: An Account of Costume for Artists and Dressmakers
Read by Libby Gohn
Talbot Hughes
Explanations of Western European trends in men and women's fashion from prehistoric times to the Victorian Era. (Summary by Libby Gohn)
A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great, Vol II
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John Bagnell Bury
J.B. Bury wrote his “History of Greece” before World War I, but it is such a good overview of classical Greek history that the third edition…
Borgia
Klabund- Alfred Henschke
In kleinen Episödchen schildert Klabund Aufstieg und Fall der berühmten Dynastie. Machtspiele, Intrigen, Korruption, Vetternwirtsc…
Europe and the Faith
Read by Ray Clare
Hilaire Belloc
The Catholic brings to history (when I say "history" in these pages I mean the history of Christendom) self-knowledge. As a man in…
The Experienced English Housekeeper
Read by Phil Benson
Elizabeth Raffald
'Cut a large old hare in small pieces, and put it in a mug with three blades of mace, a little salt, two large onions, one red herring, six …
Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
Read by Timothy Ferguson
Gaston Maspero
A handbook of Egyptian archaeology, issued by the British Museum, considered suitable for British tourists traveling to Egypt in the 19th Ce…
Army Life in a Black Regiment
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson
These pages record some of the adventures of the First South Carolina Volunteers, the first slave regiment mustered into the service of the …
The Underground Railroad, Part 3
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William Still
"Never before has the working of the Underground Railroad been so thoroughly explained. Here we have in complete detail the various met…
History of the Britons
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Nennius
One of the earliest recorded histories of Britain; Nennius wrote the book around 796BC. These days Nennius is recognised as being a teller, …
True Stories from History and Biography
Read by Susan Morin
Nathaniel Hawthorne
In writing this ponderous tome, the author's desire has been to describe the eminent characters and remarkable events of our annals, in such…